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CHOICE Internal Report I-2, Chinese Regional and Local Funding Bodies for Scientific and Technical Research [PDF]
, 2014 In this report it is shown that to understand the structure of the Chinese local government offices funding S&T research it is necessary to be aware of where they are located in the hierarchy of Chinese administrative divisions.
Itagaki, T, Owens, TJ
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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison +4 more
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Environmetrics, Volume 37, Issue 3, April 2026.ABSTRACT Earthquakes induced by injecting or extracting gas from underground reservoirs can pose a significant hazard to surrounding infrastructure and populations. Safeguarding against future seismic hazards requires accurate models for the upper tail of the earthquake magnitude distribution that are able to represent various intervention strategies ...
Conor Murphy +4 more
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Public Discourses about Teenage Pregnancy: Disruption, Restoration, and Ideology [PDF]
, 2012 Two recent incidents in the United States generated a wealth of public discourses about a particular reproductive health issue: adolescent childbearing.
Bute, Jennifer J., Russell, Laura D.
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Forgetting and Remembering: Kenneth Cumberland and Soil Erosion in New Zealand, 1940s to 2020s
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.The speed and scale of landscape transformation in New Zealand was almost immediately apparent to British geographer Kenneth Cumberland on his appointment to Canterbury University College in 1938. His efforts culminated in the nationally and internationally well‐regarded book ‘Soil Erosion in New Zealand: A Geographical Reconnaissance (1944a)’, which ...
Michael Roche
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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Popular science and personal endeavor in early-Meiji Japan: The case of Hatsumei Kiji [PDF]
, 2017 During the late 1860s and early 1870s, many science books were translated into vernacular Japanese from Chinese and European languages. These works rendered science accessible to non-scholarly audiences, thereby opening up scientific knowledge for ...
Meade, Ruselle
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Beyond Deaths and Dollars: Modeling Requirements to Support Equity‐Focused Disaster Risk Management
Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2026.The disaster risk modeling framework has long focused on quantifiable impact metrics to assess a hazard's potential direct effects, such as fatalities (deaths) and economic losses (dollars). Over time, as the framework has expanded to inform both public and private applications, additional impact metrics that more directly consider the societal roots ...
Sabine Loos +3 more
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 27-49, January 2026.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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, 2018 The occurrences of the whitening phenomenon of wood in the case of cultural historic architecture have been commonly considered as activities of white rot fungi or degradation caused by solar radiation.
KOAKUTSU Noriko +2 more
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